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I know many of my readers read both e-books and p-books. Honestly, I don’t…I do sometimes pick up one of the roughly 10,000 p-books I have on shelves in our house to check something, but I don’t read them cover to cover.

It’s just much easier for me to read e-books…easy to carry, easier for my vision.

If I could digitize all the books, I’d donate the ones I could. Some are rare, and should go to someone who will preserve them. Not valuable, for the most part, but rare.

Would I keep any of them?

Maybe…and it’s hard for me to think about getting rid of any of them!🙂

I wouldn’t fault this list…I think you’ll generally think that the books on here are reasonable choices. Sure, you can argue most controversial, but this is a list written by someone who understands books.

What do you think? Do you have a favorite translator? How did books affect you as a child? Feel free to tell me and my readers what you think by commenting on this post.

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6 Responses to “Round up #313: what kids’ authors read as kids, lots of sales”

I’m not much into lists, and these more or less prove it. Of the 2015 “bests” lists, maybe 3 or 4 of the authors are ones that I would read, but of the 2015 lists I’ve only read two.

Of the books read by children’s authors, I’ve read none, and only recognized about half. I guess that explains why I’m not a children’s book author (:grin). I read voraciously as a child, but nothing like what these authors read (my tastes were decidedly more low brow than theirs).

Of the controversial books, I recognize all of them save “The Kindly Ones”. I’ve read 2.75 of them (Ulysses was the partial).

Surprisingly, I’ve never read Huckleberry Finn — that may have had to do with all the Disney abridgements I watched on TV.

I never read Lolita, but I loved the movie with James Mason, Sue Lyons, and Shelley Winters (:grin). As a teenager all the guys I hung with would snigger and giggle about Tropic of Cancer, but I don’t think any of us ever read it (I certainly didn’t) — all based on the controversies in the press, and our parent’s overheard conversations — probably my parent’s generation’s 50 Shades of Grey (:lol).

In HS I read Catcher in the Rye, and in college Lady Chatterley’s Lover (for an English language Novel in the 20th century course — same course had Ulysses).

The controversial novels page has a bunch of lists linked to in a sidebar that look interesting — so I’m gonna run off now, and go check them out😀 .

I have to say, I’m quite surprised that you haven’t read any of the books listed by the children’s authors. I’ve read many of them, and I would have guessed most people would have read Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte’s Web, some myths and fairy tales…but I suppose that might not be true. I’ve never been dissuaded from reading books based on putative market, and I know that’s unusual. Still, I’m often so impressed with your opinions and knowledge…interesting to me that we have less of a shared culture than I might have assumed.🙂

This is what I just skimmed from the article as the list:

The Yearling
Aesop’s Fables
Hans Christian Andersen
Uncle Remus
Jane Eyre
Animal Farm
The Magic Pudding
The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother
The Outsiders
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
The Sneetches and Other Stories
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Blue Aspic
The Random House Book of Fairy Tales
Judy Blume
Mary Ellis, Student Nurse
Thirty-One Brothers and Sisters
Frog and Toad
Anne of Green Gables
The Basketball Diaries
Winnie-the-Pooh
The Carrot Seed
Where the Wild Things Are
Charlotte’s Web
The Man with the Purple Eyes
The Greatest: The Autobiography of Muhammad Ali
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
Is This You?

I’m glad the article’s sidebar may give you some discovery…and James Mason was great!

I just looked at your list of “children’s” books. There are two on there that I read: Animal Farm (which I read in High School — I don’t consider that a childhood read), and Through the Looking Glass, which I read when I was 7 or 8 — interestingly I only read Alice in Wonderland within the last year or two.

Thinking back, there weren’t many (any) “classic” children’s books around the house — so I read mostly what my parents were reading: mystery/thrillers, and some science Fiction. I read many of the Stratemeyer syndicate books (Tom Swift Jr, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc) — some every book in the series — I mostly bought these myself out of my weekly allowance.

That makes sense.🙂 Let me just clarify: I wasn’t saying these were children’s books…these were books which children’s authors said they read as children. The point of the Animal Farm story was that the parent had started them on it not realizing it was for adults…and then decided to keep going.🙂

Dagnabit! I ordered a p-book as a holiday gift for a friend two days ago. If I’d only waited a little longer I could have used that 25%.

I cannot even imagine a childhood without books. I certainly would never have had a career as an English/Reading teacher!

I’ve only read half of the 8 most controversial books. I find it odd that there was such a focus on books like “Tropic of Cancer” in the list of 8. I see that more a matter of times have changed, and those books were ahead of their time.

I don’t know if you ever checked the list of banned/censored books on Goodreads. I’ve read all of the top 25!